Steelhead fishing has been very good here on the Pere Marquette River. We’re seeing some of the best late October numbers Steve has ever seen and Steve’s been fishing this river for more than thirty years. The fish are really keyed into eggs. There are just enough salmon left in the system to be pumping out plenty of eggs, but not too many to make our flies obsolete. We’ve caught them on big nuke eggs, glo bugs, clown eggs and beads. We’re fishing indicator rigs and running the flies fairly shallow, 3-5′ typically. The fish are moving up to grab them.
We’ve made some efforts to swing one up on a streamer but we’ve had very little interest aside from a few territorial follows and swipes. When the salmon thin out a little more the streamer fishing should improve dramatically.
And remember: all of our steelhead here on the Pere Marquette River are wild, stream born fish. Occasionally you’ll catch a stray stocker from another river (look for a clipped fin), but it is rare. Please handle the fish carefully and return them to the water as quickly as possible.
Oct 27
2011
Musky Country DVD giveaway contest extravaganza UPDATE
We have only received four entries for the contest. These four entries are, albeit, of an extremely high quality, but there are only four.
One of them happens to be from Chris Engle, outdoors writer for the Gaylord Herald Times and he’s actually running his entry in the paper. It will run this Saturday in the Herald Times and it will also run in next Wednesday’s Petoskey News Review. Pretty cool.
So we’re extending the deadline for the contest until November 15th. If you want a shot at a free copy of Musky Country, send us an explanation, matt AT thirdcoastfly DOT com, though as you can see, Chris is setting the bar pretty high. Check out an excerpt from Chris’ entry:
“The more likely scenario was that Uncle Arlen, drunk off his tail, fell for a fisherman’s trick of a late-night snack. Arlen, who brought illegal fireworks to every Fourth of July party and shaved a neighbor’s cat on more than one occasion, would’ve probably wanted to go out with a splash. One last fight to show the world he was worth something.”